title: [Component removal from whole blood by means of gravity sedimentation].
abstract: Our aim was to establish a new method for the separation of long-term storable blood components (red blood cells in additive solution and frozen plasma) from whole blood by a gravity sedimentation technique with hydroxyethyl starch. This investigation should offer a cheap and technically simple method of blood separation as an alternative to whole blood storage, valuable for autologous blood to extend the presurgical donation period. Although the separation of 8 whole blood units was successful, this method cannot be recommended for routine application. It is still too complicated, difficult to standardize and too time-consuming. Additionally, the cell contamination of the plasma is too high.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für Transfusionsmedizin und Gerinnungsphysiologie, Universitätsklinikum Marburg, Deutschland.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Eichler
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Kretschmer
mesh_terms: D001782:Blood Donors; D001792:Blood Platelets; D016238:Cytapheresis / Q000379:methods*; D004912:Erythrocytes; D006112:Gravitation; D006400:Hematocrit; D006801:Humans; D006895:Hydroxyethyl Starch Derivatives; D007937:Leukapheresis / Q000379:methods; D007962:Leukocytes; D010983:Plateletpheresis / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D006895:Hydroxyethyl Starch Derivatives
vernacular_title: Komponententrennung von Eigenblut mittels Schwerkraftsedimentation.